Date, printed and at 11:28 a.m.In addition to mixing the text supposedly in Catalan and Spanish, this was the written receipt issued by a self-admission machine at the Quirón Palmaplanas Hospital to a user who visited the hospital this Thursday and reported the incident through their X profile.

Nearly 30,000 patients in the Balearic Islands' public healthcare system received treatment in private facilities during 2024. Specifically, the Balearic Islands Health Service (IB-Salut) referred 29,141 people to private healthcare providers, according to official data published in the Official Gazette of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands (BOPIB) in written response to PS6: 25:2 for consultations and diagnostic tests, and 1,489 for surgical procedures. This volume is not due to a one-off occurrence, but rather to a structural trend that reinforces the importance of contracted services within the healthcare model to alleviate public waiting lists while private ones grow longer. The Balearic Islands is one of the autonomous communities with the highest rate of private insurance coverage, with over 400,000 policyholders. The public hospital that refers the most patients to private facilities for consultations and tests is the Manacor Hospital, with 11,178 outpatient referrals in a single year. It handles more patients than all the other hospitals on the island combined. It is followed by Can Misses Hospital in Ibiza (5,408), Inca Regional Hospital (5,279), Son Llàtzer Hospital (3,196), Mateu Orfila General Hospital in Maó (2,386), and Son Espases University Hospital (205). The reason for the high volume of referrals from Manacor is that the hospital, which opened in 2002, has experienced significant growth in the population it serves, making it necessary to refer patients to alleviate waiting lists. The hospital is currently undergoing an expansion. The other hospitals in Mallorca, to varying degrees, have greater resources to manage the pressure on their healthcare systems.

A temporary civil servant with the Consell de Mallorca (Island Council of Mallorca) has filed a criminal complaint in the Palma courts against several officials of the island institution and against the company Quirón, whom she accuses of alleged crimes of administrative misconduct and disclosure of secrets within the framework of a disciplinary proceeding opened against her for a supposed conflict of interest. The complaint is directed against Quirón's legal representative, the company itself, the island director of Public Service, the technical secretary of the Presidency – who acted as the investigating officer in the disciplinary proceedings – and the Consell de Mallorca as a legal entity. According to the document, the events date back to April 2024, when the Council initiated disciplinary proceedings against the civil servant, head of the Sports Medicine Service, for alleged breaches of working hours and for simultaneously providing services to both the Council and Quirón without having requested authorization. The plaintiff maintains that the proceedings are arbitrary and selective, alleging that other professionals in the same field have faced similar situations without being sanctioned. One of the central points of the complaint is how, during the investigation, the Administration allegedly obtained specially protected data without consent, such as the employee's work history report and social security contribution record, through the General Treasury of Social Security. The defense argues that this action not only violates data protection regulations but could also have criminal implications. The complaint also alleges the transfer of personal information to Quirón without the affected party's authorization or legal basis. This information allegedly includes a report from a private investigator hired by the Council itself to monitor the civil servant. According to the complaint, the data in this report was used by Quirón to justify the employee's dismissal, and the dismissal letter, according to the defense, reproduces details of the surveillance verbatim.